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Updated: May 4, 2025
Hypatia had always avoided carefully discussing with Philammon any of those points on which she differed from his former faith. She was content to let the divine light of philosophy penetrate by its own power, and educe its own conclusions. But one day, at the very time at which this history reopens, she was tempted to speak more openly to her pupil than she yet had done.
He walked smiling downstairs through utter solitude, and in the front passage met face to face the mob of monks, costermongers and dock-workers, fishwives and beggars, who were thronging up the narrow entry, and bursting into the doors right and left; and at their head, alas! the young monk who had just trampled the necklace into the mud...no other, in fact, than Philammon.
To the more classic taste, many of his movements his recoil, especially are wanting in the true antique severity might be called, perhaps, on the whole, indecent. Still the weary pilgrim must be amused. Let us step in and hear. But before Philammon could refuse, an uproar arose within, a rush outward of the mob, and inward of the prefect's apparitors. 'It is false! shouted many voices.
Cleopatra has done many things which are forgiven only in a queen, but that she should become the tool of her brother's basest passions, even you, Philammon, could hardly regard as likely, though you are always prepared to expect evil rather than good. But now, what is to be done? How can we protect ourselves against violence and superior force?"
THE little porter, after having carried Arsenius's message to Miriam, had run back in search of Philammon and his foster-father; and not finding them, had spent the evening in such frantic rushings to and fro, as produced great doubts of his sanity among the people of the quarter.
In the meanwhile some of the women called to mind that Philammon, who had been employed in the murder of Arsinoë, had within those three days come to Alexandria, and they made a rush at his house.
"Then the two brothers, determining to proceed, arrived upon the summit of the said mountain. "There in an open grave, guarded by two lions, lay the body of Philammon, the abbot; and by his side, wrapped in his cloak, the corpse of a woman of exceeding beauty, such as the Moors had described. And by the grave-side stood the paten and the chalice, emptied of their divine contents.
What is that boy Philammon doing there? Let him go with Master Hieracas. Peter seemed not to receive the proposition favourably, and whispered something to the archdeacon.... 'No. I can spare none of the rest. Importunate persons must take their chance of being well served. Come here are our brethren; we will all go together.
He caught Philammon in his trunk and raised him high in air. For an instant the great bellowing ocean of heads spun round and round. He tried to breathe one prayer, and shut his eyes Pelagia's voice rang sweet and clear, even in the shrillness of intense agony 'Spare him! He is my brother! Forgive him, men of Macedonia! For Pelagia's sake Your Pelagia! One boon only this one!
'So he did, said Philammon, dragging up his captive, 'and here is his fellow-scoundrel. Whereon the two worthies were speedily tied together by the elbows; and the party marched on once more in search of Alexander's church, and the supposed conflagration. Philammon looked round for the negress, but she had vanished.
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